Remote Yum Update Aborted With Session Closing – Won’t Boot

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I was upgrading a system remotely from CentOS 6.3 to 6.5 via VNC. Now the system will not boot. Or at least without bringing up the console and switching to the older kernel. The last messages I see in
/var/log/messages are:

Jul 1 14:53:51 rigel yum[3220]: Updated: scl-utils-20120927-8.el6.i686
Jul 1 14:53:53 rigel gnome-keyring-daemon[2710]: dbus failure unregistering from session: Connection is closed Jul 1 14:53:53 rigel gnome-keyring-daemon[2710]: dbus failure unregistering from session: Connection is closed Jul 1 14:53:54 rigel gnome-keyring-daemon[2822]: dbus failure unregistering from session: Connection is closed Jul 1 14:53:54 rigel gnome-keyring-daemon[2822]: dbus failure unregistering from session: Connection is closed

yum update reports ‘No Packages marked for Update’.

How do I trouble shoot this? I am assuming that I only got a partially completed update.

7 thoughts on - Remote Yum Update Aborted With Session Closing – Won’t Boot

  • Try yum-complete-transaction and see what happens.

    And for future reference, always run yum in a screen session when updating a remote system.

  • You can do “yum history list” to see the number of the last command, lets say it was 234, and then you can use “yum history info 234 to list all changed packages. “yum history undo 234 would revert the system to previous state, and then you can do “yum update” again. “yum history repeat 234” might help you as well.

    I think you have enough info to chose how you want to proceed.

  • Careless of me. I learned about screen session some time ago, but forgot with too much going on. No excuses. Just got to fix this system so I can set it up as a Miredo server.

  • # yum-complete-transaction Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
    * base: lug.mtu.edu
    * epel: less.cogeco.net
    * extras: lug.mtu.edu
    * updates: lug.mtu.edu Checking for new repos for mirrors There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one The remaining transaction had 458 elements left to run

    And something seems to be computing right now….

    As it has the CPU pegged at 95%